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The Rococo art movement is commonly seen as a descent into frippery, decoration and corruption. Waldemar Januszczak disagrees. He argues that the Rococo was actually an age in which the modern world was born.

Picking three key territories of the Rococo world-travel, pleasure and madness - Waldemar Januszczak celebrates the finest cultural achievements of the period. In this episode, he looks at travel in the 18th century and how it impacted some of the finest art ever made. (1 of 3)